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TALKS TO WOMEN
President Rooseveft in an Address
Condemns Race Suicide.
EXALTS MOTHERHOOD
He Says the Mother is the One Su
preme Asset ot the Nation, and
That He Abhors the Man Who
Mistreats Women, Most Especial"
ly the Women of His Own House
hold.
The White House was the scene
Tuesday of the formal opening of
the first nternational congress on the
welfare of the child, which is being
held undnr the auspices of the Na
tional Mothers' congress. The 200
delegates representing all the States
and territories and a dozen or more
of the leading countries of the world
were received at the White House at
2.30 o'clock that afternoon when
President Roosevelt delivered an ad
dress to them in which he declared
that he placed the society ahead of
the Civil War veterans, because he
said in the final analysis, it is the
mother only who is a better citizen
than the soldier who fights for his
country.
The president said in part: ,
"The successful mother, the moth
er who does her part in rearing and
training aright the boys and girls
who are be the men and women of
the next generation, is of greater use
to the community and occupies, did
she only realize it, a more honorable
as well as a more Important position
than any successful man in it.
"Nothing in life that is really
worth havinj; comes save at the cost
of effort. No life of self-indulgence
of mere vapid pleasure can possibly,
even in one point of pleasure itself,
yield so ample a reward as comes to
the mother at the cost of self-denial,
of effort, of suffering child-birth, of
the long, slow, patient, trying work
of bringing up the chldren arght.
No system of education, no system of
moral training can be right unless
it is based fundamentally upon the
recognition of seeing that the girl is
trained to understand the supreme
dignity, the supreme usefulness of
motherhood/-. Unless the average
woman is a good mother, unless she
bears a sufficient number of children
so that the race shall increase and
not decrease unless she brings up
these children in soul and mind and
body?unlesp this is true of the aver
age woman, no brilliancy of
genius, no material prosperity,
no triumphs of science and
industry, will avail to save the
race from ruin and death. The
mother is the one supreme asset of
, national life; she is more important'
by far than ihe successful statesman
or business man, artist or scientist.
"I abhor and condemn the man
who is brutal, thoughtless, careiess,
selfish with women, and especially
with the women of his own house
hold. The birth pangs make all men
. the debtors of all women. I abhor
k and condemn the man who falls to
" recognize all h>'s obligations to the
woman who does her duty. But the
woman who shirks her duty as wife
and mother is just as heartily to
be condemned. We despise her as
we despise and condemn the soldier
who flinches in battle.
"Because- we so admire the good
woman, the unselfish woman, the
farsighted woman, we have scant pa
tience with her unworthy sister who
fears to do her duty; exactly as, for
the very reason that, we respect a
man who does his duty honestly and
fairly. All honor to the man or wo
man who does duty, who renders ser
vice, and we can only honor him or
her if the weight of our condemna
tion Is felt, by those who flinch from
their duty.
"I want to ask your assistance for
two or three matters that are not
immediately connected with the life
in the family itself, but that are of
vital consequence to the children. In
the first place, in the school, that .he
school work he made practical as
possible. For the boys I want, to see
training provided that shall train
them toward, and not away from,
their life work: that will train them
toward the farm or the shop, not
away from it. With the girl, see that
it is not made a matter of mirth that
the girl who goes to college comes
out unprepared to do any of the or
dinary duties of womanhood.
"As regards our public school, es
pecially I want to put in a special
word in behalf of the right kind of
play grounds. No school is a good
school if it has not a good play
ground. Help the children to play,
and remember that you can often
help them most by leaving them en
tirely alone.
"You can not have good citizens,
good men and good women of the
next generation if the boys and girls
are worked in factories to the stunt
ing of their moral, mental and phy
sical growth. Wherever the nation
al government can reach, it should
do away with the evils of child
labor, and I trust this will be done;
but much must be done by the ac
tions of the several State legislatures;
and do, each of you. in your several
States, all *hat you can to secure the
enactment, and then the enforce
ment, of laws, that shall put a stop
to the employment of children of
tender age in doing what only grown
people should do.
?'Do not forget that love Is what
169.
SOME PLAIN TALK.
!FROM SENATOR TILLMAN ON THE
I TARIFF IN THE SENATE.
Said Present Needs of the Republi
can Party for Campaign Funds Care
for Trusts Necessary.
Senator Frye's joint resolution to
provide for the transportation by
American ships only of material for
use in the construction of the Pana
ma canal, which was brought up in
the senate Tuesday by unanimous
consent, was the subject of an ani
mated debate on various phases of
th work of providing material for the
canal.
Mr. Frye stated that five million
barrels of cement are to be used in
the constructou of the canal and said
that under the law American ships
cannot compete for transportation
t
service, as British ships cost 33 1-3
per cent, less for both construction
and for their operation. His resolu
tion was to give the trade to Amer
ican ships, regardless of the differ
ence Id cost. He submitted statistics
showing that there were 10 times as
much tonnage of Ameican vessels as
I was necessary to ship the cement
needed.
An amendment by Senator Foster
of Louisiana providing that the, re
striction should not apply to the Gulf
ports or any part of the United States
from which vessels of the United
States could not be secured for the
trade, was accepted by Mr. Frye.
Senators Fulton, of Oregon, and
Bacon, of Georgia, sought to have
jthe amendment extended to the
northern Pacific and southern Atlan
tic coasts, respectively,.'mt were un
successful. /
Mr. Lodge .commenting on the pro
priety of securing cement on the is
thmus, said it would cost $1,000,000
to erect plant there for that purpose.
Mr. Culberson said there was need
of protecting tjje United States from
extortion by the monopolies that
would be benefited by the resolution.
Mr. Bacon thought the resolution
should not leave the direction to the
president to determine that American
ships should be given this business
when their charges were not extor
tionate nor unreasonable. He want
ed the restriction mandatory so that
every bidder could know what he
would meet in the way of transporta
tion.
Mr. Tllman, declaring against buy
ing cement in the United States at
greater cost than elsewhere, called
Mr. Lodge to his feet with the state
ment that if he wanted free cement
he should apply the same principle to
lumber and and other material used
on the canal or in this country.
"I would like powerful well to
have that done," retorted Mr. Till
man, "as I represent a good many
farmers who would be benefited by
cheap supplies."
Mr. Tllman added that the need
for campaign funds made it necessary
to look after the interests of the
shipping trust.
The resolution was then laid aside
until later.
FIREBUGS LYNCHED.
Four of Them Taken From an Offi
cer and Hanged.
Dave Poe, Tom Ranston and two
Jenkins brothers, all negroes, were
lynched at Vancleave, Miss., by a
mob of 30 men Tuesday night. The
men were in the custody of Deputy
Sheriff Evans of Jackson county en
route to jail when the mob overtook
them.
A series of incendiary warehouse
fires, causing losses in foodstuffs and
other supplies, incensed the people of
the vicinity. The four negroes con
fessed their guilt when the mob took
them from the deputy and all four
were hanged to limbs of trees by
the side of the road where their bod
ies were found the next morning.
The immediate causeof thelynching
was the burning of the warehouse of
Sam Byrd last Friday night, when,
it is said, an attempt was made to
waylay and rob Byrd. who conducts
a store near Vaneleavi'.
Among the other warehouses burn
ed in the vicinity are those of W. H.
Westfall about a month ago and the
Dantzler Lumber company recently.
The lynching was conducted in an
orderly manner.
the home is based on; but do not
do children, don't do grown people,
the dreadful injustice?through a
love that is merely one form of weak
ness?of failing to make the child,
or I might add, the man, behave it
self or himself. A marriage should
be a partership where each of the
two partes has his or her rights,
where each should be more careful
to do his or her duty, than to ex
act duty from the partner, but each
must in justice to the other partner
no less than to himself or herself,
exact the performance of duty by
the other partner. ( Applause.) Let
each of you do his or her duty first
but do not lose your self respect by
submittng to wrong.
The first session of the congress
was held at tne Metropolitan Meth
odist Episcopal church at John Mar
shall place and C street. Elmer E.
Brown, United States commissioner
of education, who was appointed by
President Roseveit ras the official
representative of the United States,
spoke on '?Children in the United
States."
ORA1STGEBU
TESTIMONY GIVER OUT.
Suppressed Dispensary .Mutter Made
Public by Charmnn Murray.
Chairman W. J. Murray, of the
dispensary commission Wednesday
made public the testimony taken in
regard to tne exnense and per diem
accounts of Mr. B. F. Arthur, one of
the members of the commission who
was appointed receiver by Judge Prit
chard. This testimony was taken in
October and was transmitted to Gov
ernor Ansel but the governor has
taken no acton and all nformation in
regard to the matter has been with
held from the press.
Mr. Arthur has not since attended
a meeting of the commission. In xact,
all inquiries were met with the an
swer that there "is nothing in it."
The investigation of Mr. Arthur
was caused by a report to the com
mission by its attorney, Mr. W. F.
Stevenson, In which he said.
"Voucher No. 211, the Hon. B. F.
Arthur, for March, shows 13 days'
service in March, 565. The record
shows that he attended meetings of
the board on March 12 and 13, and
he doubtless came down to sign
checks which could not have taken
more than two days, which would
leave nine days to be accounted for,
which I don't understand, and if al
lowed to stand as it will subject the
board to grave criticism, and con
structive per diem cannot be allowed
It contains items of mileage to Rich
mond which should be explained fully
in the vocher or mileage could not be
charged from Rchmond to meet the
board here.
"His account for April is for eight
days, and the record shows only one
day at a meeting, and if we allow
one day to go and come and one trip
for signing checks, allowing two days,
making four possible days for the
month and I cannot approve the
voucher as it stands."
It seems that whenever Mr. Arthur
came from Union to Columbia to
sign checks be charged up three days,
although he was not engaged more
than fifteen minutes in signing the
checks. On one occaison he charged
mileage from Richmond, Va.
SHOT FROM AMBUSH.
Three Men, All Prominent, Shot From
Convent Grounds.
Dr. Glovonni Grana, a prominent
physician; his brother in law, John
Orofino, and a friend, Alfonso Mole,
were shot from ambush in Ybor City,
Fla., by four men, who had secreted
themselves in the grounds of St.
Joseph's Convent. Mole will prob
ably die, the others being only slight
ly wounded. All are Italians, and
the shooting is believed to be the re
sult of a Black Hand Plot. Five
j thousand dollars was demanded from
Dr. Granu several weeks ago, and he |
I had also been warned to leave the |
city. Demands have also been made
'on other prominent Italians, and
much alarm has prevailed in the
'Italian colony. The police have ar
rested five Italians on suspicion.
ENDS IX SAD TRADEGV.
A Ghastly JoLc Is Ueportod From
Across the Sea.
A ghastly joke is reported from
Lisbon. It appears that, at Salseas, i
a small place- - ihe district of 15rag
anza. some of the inhabitants decided
during the carnival Tuesday, to give
a mock performance representing the
Lisbon tragedy. One of their num
ber, galloping wildly through the
[streets on horseback, played the part
of S<mhor Franco, the dictator; four
persons seated in an open carriage
represented the royal party, and one
man was made up to look like the
Regicide Bucia. The latter, unfor
tunately played that part too true to
life, for, not being aware that the
revolver which he brandished was
ioaded, he lodged a bullet in the head
or his brother, IS years old, who was
dressed in female attire, to represent
the queen, killing him instantly.
KG, S. G.f FRIDAY. MAI
FEEL MY MUSCLE NOW.
MILLS SHUTTING DOWN.
Thousands of Operatives Are Affect
ed by the Curtailment.
Thousands of employees ot- New
England Mills and factories went on
a short time basis following several
months of depression. In some places
report* come of several factories re
suming worn arter the shut down or
increasing their running time. ?
The Hargraves Parker mills in
Fall River went on a four days a
week basis. The Fisher Manufac
turing Company's cotton mills, at
Fisherville, Mass., employing 700
hands, were shut down until Monday.
The Gabot mills, at Brunswick,
Ma., with 800 hands, went on a
schedule of four days a week.
* Cotton mills in several town? own
ed by B. B. and R. Knight, ana em
ploying six thousand operatives, went
Ion a three quarters time schedule.
The Putnam Manufacturing Com
pany's mills went on three and a half
time schedule and the Nightingale
and Powhattan mills, of Putnam,
Conn., have reduced to four days a
week, affecting 700 hands.
The Edwards cotton mills, at Au
gusta, Maine, employing 1,000 hands,
adopted a half schedule, and the
Whitin machine shops, at Whitin
ville, Mass., making cotton mill ma
chinery, with 1,800 men. reduced
time to forty-five houVs a week.
Curtailment of production is also
approved by the Chicopee cotton
mills, of Chicopee Falls, 1,300 hands,
the Dwight mills, of Chicopee, 500
operatives, Salmon Falls mills, Sal
mon Falls, N. H., 700 operatives,
Naumbeag cotton mihs, of Salem,
1,500 hands, and other concerns.
THREE DROWNED.
I Boat Capsized With Party of Ten
Persons In It.
Mrs. Augusta Keller, two of her
children, Mr. and Mrs. Clack, Mr. W.
F. Bone, Mr. and Mrs. James Queen,
W. H. Bright and Charles Green, all
operatives of the Appalachee mills,
were in a small canoe on the pond
near Greer Sunday afternoon for a
pleasure ride. The load in the boat
caused it to dip and when some water
came into the boat, Mrs. Keller and
her two children jumped overboard.
The other persons in the boat be
came panic stricken and also jumped
into the water.
Mr. J. B. White, who was strolling
along the bank of the pond witnessed
the accident. He quickly secured an
other canoe and paddled to where
the victims were doing their best to
save their lives.
Mr. White succeeded In getting his
hands on the clothes of the two chil
dren of Mrs. Keller and they were
drawn into the boat. White then at
tempted to catch Mrs. Keller, but she
sank to the bottom. White then i
turned his attention to the other per
sons in the water and succeeded in
rescuing them. The first one to be
rescued alter the children was Mrs.
Queen, then Mr. Queen and then
Bright, Green and Clack.
The victims who e<>",J urn be
reached, were Mrs. Clack. Mrs. Kel
ler and Mr. W. F. Hone. The bodies
of those sank to the bottom, and
since the pond is several feel deep it
was necessary to dredge for them.
All three of the bodies were recov
ered.
CIRCUS MAN KILLED.
-
Meets Instant Death in Railroad Ac
rident in Augusta.
W. B. Bunnington, in charge of the
first advertising car of the Spark?'
Circus, was killed i'i the C. and V??'. \
C. Railroad yard in Augusta late j
Wednesday afternoon. Bunningt'K) |
was standing on the rear watching
the trucks of his car to see if they
were running hot and leaned too far
out over an adjoining track. In j
passing a switch the steel disc on the i
top of the switch rod struck him in
the face, completely severing the i
I whole right side of his head.
ICH 13. 1908.
?St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
LOSE THE HI LIVES.
The Sad Fate of Three Little Boys
Over in Sumter.
A dispatch from Sumter to Tha
State says between 5 and G o'clock
Tuesday the dead, body of Welley
Wedekind, a young white boy be
tween 8 and 9 years of age, son of
Mr. Henry C. Wedekind of that city,
was found floating on the water of
a clay hole at the Sumter brick works
just outside of the city limits. Mr.
Tom Roland being called, went in
and brought the body out.
The caps of two other boys were
also found, and Durreil Lide, son of
Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Lide, and Archie
Ledingham, two boys about 9 yearii
each, are missng and there is little
doubt but that they were also drown -
ed in he asnie hole. Ail three of the
boys nave been missing all day.
Mr. Irviu A. Ryttenberg, proprietor
of the Sumter brick works, says that
the three boys above named were at
the brick hole that morning, when he
ran them away.
An old boat In the clay hole has
been used by some of the boys around
the town and the supposition is that
these three boys went out in this;
boat, which overturned or they fell
out of it and were drowned.
A searching party has been drag
ging the clay hole for the two missing
drowned is unknown,
drowned s unknown.
At 9:15 information was brought to
the city that the body of Archie Led
ingham had been recovered.
The deplorable tragedy has cast a
gloom over the entire community and
the afflicted parents have the sympa
thy of all the people in Sumter.
THE DISPENSARY MESS.
What Senator Til I man Thinks of tin
Whole Matter.
In speaking of the dispensary mess
in Columbia Senator Tillman express
es himself in his usual plain manner:
"The trouble never would have oc
curred," said the senator to The
State's correspondent, "if the legis
lature had never placed the funds in
to the hands of a commission which
could take the money out of the State
treasury. Do you suppose that if the
money had been in the State treas
ury and the regular officers of the
State in charge of it, any federal
judge whould have dared to touch it':
Judge Prltchard's action had for Its
ground the fact that the commission
was acting merely as trustees for
the State, and he holds that this
places them in the same position as
trustees or agents for any business
concern. Thon- is something pecu
liar about this commission business
anyway. I have been tryng to find
out who was the author of the bill to i
create it.
It. looks to me like al the bottom
of if there was some attempt to pla.\
underhand politics, and while I don't
like to say there is something crook
ed about it. ii certainly seems that j
i In- banks which have had all that I
money on deposit all I he time have
been greatly favored. Why Hasn't
the commission paid out the money,
or at least those claims' which they]
have approved? They hadn't, paid
any of it out until a little over a week
ago. All the lime it has remained in
the banks and the banks have beer,
getting the benefit of it "
CHANTED TIME TO WHITE
His Biography by the Governor Be
fore Being Hung.
Gov. Claude A. Swanson. of Vir
ginia, telephoned Sheriff Lawler that.
Leo C. Thurman, under sentence to
he hanged today at. Norfolk for the
murder f W. P. Dolsen, had been
respited t the 27th inst. The respite
was granted on the plea of Thurman
asking for a fortnight more in which
to complete a history of his life,!
which he is writing.
KILLED HER FRIEND
A YOUNG LADY FROM SAVANNAH
KILLED IN BOSTON, MASS.
The Murder Was Committed by An
other Young Lady, Suffering from
Melancholia, Due to Overwork.
Suffering from melancholia, due to
overwork, Miss Ruth Chamberlin
Weed, of Philadelphia, shot and kill
ed Miss Elizabeth Bailey Hardee, of
No. 214 Gwinneth street, East Savan
nah, Georgia, and then committed
suicide at the Laurens School for
Girls in the Fenway district. The
bodies of the two women were found
by Mrs. Page, the matron of the
school. The Laurens School was es
tablished last fall by Miss Hardee
and Miss Weed. On October 1, the
day school opened. Miss Weed broke
down as a result of overwork and as
a result was committed to a sanitari
um to be treated for nervous prostra
tion.
Tuesday night Miss Weed escaped
from the sanitarium and made her
way to the school. She appeared to
be badly deranged mentally. A
fruitless attempt was made to com
municate with the authorities of the
sanitarium, and at length Miss Har
dee succeeded in getting Miss Weed
to go to bed in Miss Hardee's cham
ber on the third floor of the school
building.
Both women were awakened by
Mrs. Page and notified that they must
get up if they were to catch the 7.50
train, on which Miss Weed was to be
taken to West Newton. Mrs. Page
left them and a few moments later
the shooting occurred. Mrs. Page
thinks the mention of returning to
the sanitarium must have excited
and angered Miss Weed and induced
the shooting.
From the nature of the v... unds
Medical Examiner Stedman de< ided
that Miss Weed had committed suici
de by shooting herself through the
right temple after having shot Miss
Hardee through the base of the brain.
Both women were about 32 years old
and they had been intimate since
their graduation from Wellesley Col
lege. Miss Hardee received her di
ploma in 1894, while Miss Weed re
ceived hers a year later Miss Har
dee was an instructor of mathemat
ics in Wellesley in 1899 and 1900,
and lasr. year taught school in Ver
mont.
Miss Weed ai.30 had been teaching
in various sections of the county.
Last summer the two women decided
to open a boarding school for girls
on Audubon road, in the Fenway
district. October 1, the day upon
whch the Laurens School, as they call
ed it, was opened, Miss Weed broke
down as a result of overwork and
was taken to a sanitarium in West
Newton, where she had since been
under treatment. While at the san
itarium Miss Weed had been subject
to severe attacks of melancholia. Es
caping the other night, she made her
way to Laurens School, where Miss
Hardee volunteered to care for her
during the night.
Mfss Weed behaved in a peculiar
manner, according to the teachers,
wandering aimlessly about theschool
building and occasionally making a
strange or incoherent remark. At
length Miss Hardee persuaded Miss
Weed to retire, and the demented wo
man followed her to her own cham
ber on the third floor of the school.
When Mrs. Page, the matron of the
school, went to Miss Hardee's room
the next morning she was shocked to
rind both women dead.
J The pupils at the school, about 4 0
in number, are the daughters of
wealthy parents from all sections of
the country.
Miss Hardee, in addition to school
work, had taken a great interest in
settlement work in the city, and es
pecially among the Itlians in the
north end. During her college career
she was promineut in many branches
and extremely popular. Miss Weed's
work since leaving college has been
eon fined almost eutirely to teaching.
While in the sanitarium at West
Newton she was frequently subject
to extreme paroxysms of weeping,
hut never appeared to bear any ani
mosity to any of her friends.
ONE GIRL SHOT ANOTHER.
About a Young Man Who Was At"
tentive to Her.
A special from Asheville, N. C.
gives the particulars of a sensation;.!
shooting there lasl week of a young
woman. Miss Ida Frank Hi by .Miss
Parsedn Shelton.
It srems that the shouting is the
result of enmity arising between the
iwo former friends over the love of
a young man with whom both were
Infatuated.
Miss Shelton, hearing that that
Miss Fran kin had been "?talking
about bei-.'' went to the latter
with the purpose of securing a
personal interview about the matter.
When she appeared she was refused
admittance to the Franklin home and
the door "was slammed" in Miss
Shellon's face.
The former thereupon drew a pis
tol and fired through the door, the
bullet striking Miss Franklin in the
breast, making a dangerous wound.
Delegates limst ructed.
Pennsylvania's delegation will go
to the Denver convention uniustruct
ed." was the pointed remark made by
Colonel James M. Gtlffey, Democratic
leader.
SI.50 PEK ANmm.
BRYAN WILL WIN.
New York Sun Says Democrats
Will Carry That
STATE IN NOVEMBER
Over Any Candidate the Republican**
May Name.?A Washington Cor
respondent Says Well Informed
Politicians Not Only Agree WitU
This View, Bot Look Confidently;
for Bryan to Be President.
Ralph Smith, the Washington cor*
respondent of the Atlanta Journal,
says Democrats have been out oil
power for so long and the party has
met with such overwhelming defeat;
in national elections of recent years
that ordinarily, it would seem ex
tremely hazardous to predict a Dem
ocratic victory at the coming presi
dential election. But there are in:
Washington today many of the bes?
posted politicians in the country?.
men who have had long experience
and who have made a study of con
ditions?who confidently predict the
election of Mr. Bryan next fall over
any candidate the Republicans may
nominate at Chicago, and these men
are not enthusiastic Bryanltes, nor
on the died-ln-the-wool Democrats.
Many of them are old line Republi
cans, men who have never voted any-*
thing but the Republican ticket.
The New York Sun, anti-adminhv*
tration, anti-anything-opposed-to-spe
cial-interests, in its leading editorial
of Tuesday, March 3, declared that
William Howard Taft cannot be elec
ted president, even if he is nominat
ed by the Republicans at Chicago,
which it doubts. This interesting;
statement is made even more so by*
the further declaration that either
William J. Bryan or William R,
Hearst, if nominated by the Demo
crats at Denver, can carry New YorIC
state over any candidate the Repub
lican party may put up.
The past inconsistonces of The
Sun, tokether with its well-known,
pro-corporation, pro-capitalistic pol
icy, to say nothing of its bitter an
tagonism of President Roosevelt, and
"his policies," has tended to weaken,
the declaration, but the editorial has
just the same attracted m?ch atten
tion and caused widespread comment
among politicians in Washington.
Among other things, the editorial!
says:
"If Mr. Taft were to secure the
Republican nomination, a contin
gency which has been effectively pro
vided against, he could not be elect
ed. The Democratic candidate, wheth
er Hearst or Bryan, would win."
"Speaking of our own state (New;
York) we record our conviction,"1
continues the editorial, "that no Re
publican candidate, and we particu
larly include Mr. Roosevelt himself,
can carry it against Bryan, Hearst,
or any other Democrat that may be
placed in nomination at Denver,
There are mighty and revolutionary
changes operating in the political
landscape."
The editorial offers an opportunity
to discuss, briefly, the chances or
Democratic success at the next elec
tion. Regardless of the Sun's sin
cerity, there are in Washington a
number of people, supposedly well
posted, who share the belief that suc
cess will perch upon the standard of.
the Democratic party at the next elec
tion, and they all concede the nomi
nation of Bryan by acclamation aft
Denver. ?
The Sun is probably the first to
come forward with the claim that the
Democrats will carry New York, and
this statement is attributed more to
dislike for Mr. Roosevelt than to a
genuine conviction.
But the Republican party is in
power, and, as a young statesman
from Georgia often says, "a panic is
upon the people." Whether there
he a panic in reality makes little dif
ference, the fact is that hundreds of
thousands of men are out of work,
particularly in the more populous
states of the east and the middle
west. It. makes no difference wheth
er the Republican party is responsi
ble for the hard times, the great mass
of people believe such 10 be the case,
and there are many who have here
tofore voted the Republican ticket
I who believe that a change would do
them good and benefit the country.
No class of persons study politics
more closely than the Washington
correspondents, and it is surprising
to note the growing belief among
these men i hal Bryan will be elect
ed, regardless of whom the Rebubli
cans nominate. Some of the oldest,
and best informed writets in t! 10 -ral
lery ?Republicans, represeutinggreat
Republican papers?freely c infess
that the chances of Democrat:- i: -
cess look much brighter today than
do the Republican chances.
New Yorkers look upon the Sun's:
editorial declaration with varying
views, but they all agree that it is
quite significant. The concldung par
agrap h. especially, has impressed
them, and this paragraph predicts
that New York state will go Demo
cratic.
The last sentence, "There are
mighty and revolutionary changes
operating in the political landscape,"
is regarded as a particularly signifi
cant hint. " The mighty and revolu
tionary changes" are taken to mean
a determination in certain quarters
to accent Bryan, or Hearst, if need
bo. in preference to either Roose
velt or Taft.